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Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 20 - 26 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here SUNDAY âThe Tudorsâ was never quite the same after Anne Boleyn,...

*claps hands to face, shakes feathered hair, screams* I'm sorry! I meant to do this last week. Larry pitched this idea when he first started running posts from 1980, and I thought "ooh, there's a Friday the 13th in August" and then I didn't think about it...

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Katherine Parr
Complete Works and Correspondence
Edited by Janel Mueller
University of Chicago Press: 648 pp., $65
One of the difficulties of studying Tudor and medieval women is the silence they have left. Medieval people did not write nearly as much as historians would wish, and medieval women hardly wrote at all.
This is why a scholarly edition of Katherine Parr's "Complete Works and Correspondence," edited by Janel Mueller, is such a joy. Here we have one of Henry VIII's queens — the one...